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From The Reporter’s Notebook
As polls show a tightening race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Paul Tewes, Director of President Obama’s 2008 Iowa Caucus campaign, tells TPM’s Lauren Fox about the difficulty of reading the ground game ahead of time. Until the night arrives, it’s difficult to see how well the campaign did at building the infrastructure and turnout machine. “You do anything and everything that you can to mobilize turnout,” Tewes said. “You get rides going. You get a buddy system going. Every locale is different.”
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Several years ago I read an article about the “C Street” house where many younger GOP Congressmen live. It’s very much a cult, and one of its teachings, as I recall, was that the rules are for the average person, not for the leaders (meaning the GOP congressmen, who lapped this enabling information up). Hence, we get people like Mark Sanford, Mr. Durham here, and many others who spout religion, rules, and morality and believe in authorian, Christian government which restricts sexual and spiritual freedom for everyone but them. I know Dems fall into this trap, too, but rarely do you hear them pontificating like the GOP. They also know how to oppose government and simultaneously use it to enrich themselves. So many of them practice this hypocrisy–Gingrich, Vitter, Livingston, etc. Since the whole thing is one big grift and the right wing media are part of it, it rarely gets brought to light, and there certainly are no lasting consequences for it. It’s good Durham, who gives new meaning to the word “whip,” is out of office, but there’s another one like him in the pipeline, rest assured.”
Related: A Tennessee GOP state representative resigned over texts he sent to his female colleagues.
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What We’re Reading
Exhibit A of wasteful spending in Afghanistan: the Pentagon sank $300M into an unfinished hydroelectric power plant. (ProPublica)
What Ted Cruz doesn’t know about Ronald Reagan. (The Nation)
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